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• 23:17 The laddish faction in college makes me despair. It never used to be like that. #
• 23:52 @ParrotKnight The JCR is much more civillised than it used to be, but the MCR has declined. I blame the MBAs, but that may be unfair. #
• 08:01 xkcd.com/541/ <3 #
• 10:09 @s_adelheid Did they mention the Trabi? I have an odd love for the Trabant. They're just cute, even if many lawnmowers are better powered. #
• 11:06 Why do German academic publishers like to use different sizes of type for bits of argument they consider less important? It's vile to read! #
• 11:43 *misreads 'minnethematik' as 'minnemathematik'.* My brain is a strange place, apparently. #
• 13:10 *is hungry, for obvious reasons, and goes to seek sandwiches* #
• 14:25 Am greatly charmed by TS Eliot poem about Christmas Trees, and still more by a juvenile comic ghost story in rather satirical-Byronic style. #
• 15:26 *is unsure what Job is doing in Mengelgedichten 3* Especially as the words attributed to him are said by one of his 'comforters'. #
• 15:34 WHY DID I SAY I'D LEAD A DISCUSSION ON THESE POEMS? THEY ARE BASICALLY NOT INTERESTING UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT UNION WITH GOD! *cries* #
• 15:39 I mean, I think that's interesting, but it's supposed to be a literature seminar, not theology. #
• 16:56 Should probably stop reading about Synod when I should be working, too. #
• 17:17 *contemplates conference schedule* speak just before afternoon coffee break on second last day. Relieved - had last slot two years running. #
• 17:27 @white_hart Yep. I'm impressed - I can't get texting to work. #
• 17:40 @Sammee42 Oh no! Can you still file it? #
• 18:18 Why does paper only start working just before Cubs? *grump* #

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Why do German academic publishers like to use different sizes of type for bits of argument they consider less important? It's vile to read!

Because German academic writing has an inbuilt tendency toward being vile to read? < ducks >

Why does paper only start working just before Cubs? *grump*

Yeah, that's more or less what happened with my chapter section this afternoon...

[tree_and_leaf]

I think you are probably right on point 1. Good - i.e. interesting writing seems to be considered unsound (take Kurt Ruh, for instance. Erudite and interesting ideas, but God, he's tedious to read).

Papers can sense the approach of the end of the day....